176 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [Feb., 1882. 



New York Academy of Sciences, Dec. 12. — The following 

 papers were read : Additional notes on the geology of Staten 

 Island, by Mr. N. L. Britton. Remarks on the Mammoth cave 

 of Kentucky, by Mr. W. Le Conte Stevens. 



Dec. 19. —The following papers were read : On a peculiar coal- 

 like transformation of peat, recently discovered at Scranton, Penn., 

 by Professor H. L. Fairchild. On the means of giving accuracy 

 to ventilation by steam, by Professor W. P. Trowbridge. 



Boston Society of Natural History, Dec. 21,1 881. — Mr. John 

 A. Jeffries spoke on the spurs and claws of birds' wings, and Mr. S. 

 H. Scudder on Tertiary fossil spiders, especially those of Florissant. 



Jan. 4, 1882. — Professor E. S. Morse compared the shells of 

 New England Kjokkenmoddings with the present forms of the 

 same species, and Miss M. H. Hinckley showed some struc- 

 tural differences between our native tadpoles and their bearing 

 on the classification of the species. 



American Geographical Society, Dec. 21. — Mr. W. E. Griffis 

 lectured on Corea, the hermit nation. 



Jan. 10. — Mr. T. By. Myers read a paper entitled, Our acquisi- 

 tion of French territory west of the Mississippi, in 1803. 



SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 



Bulletin of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Sur- 

 vey of the Territories, Vol. vi, No. 2, Sept. 19, 1881. — Anno- 

 tated list of the birds of Nevada, by W. J. Hoffman. North 

 American moths, with a preliminary catalogue of species of Ha- 

 dena and Polia, by A. R. Grote. The Tertiary lake basin of 

 Florissant, Colorado, by S. H. Scudder. Revision of the genus 

 Sciurus, by E. L. Trouessart. Osteology of the North American 

 Tetraonidae, by R. W. Shufeldt. Osteology of Lanius ludovici- 

 anus excubitorides, by R. W. Shufeldt. Review of the Rodentia 

 of the Miocene period of North America, by E. D. Cope. On 

 the Canidae of the Loup Fork Epoch, by E. D. Cope. On a 

 crayfish from the Lower Tertiary beds of Western Wyoming, by 

 A. S. Packard, Jr. 



American Journal of Science, Jan., 1882. — Contributions to 

 meteorology : mean annual rainfall for different countries of the 

 globe, by Elias Loomis (map). Post-glacial joints, by G. K. Gil- 

 bert. The connection between the Cretaceous and the recent 

 Echinid faunae, by A. Agassiz. Classification of the Dinosauria, 

 by O. C. Marsh. 



Geological Magazine, Dec, 1881. — Contributions to fossil 

 Crustacea, by H. Woodward. 



Jenaische Zeitschrift fur Naturwissenschaft, Nov. 25. — 

 Free-cell formation in the embryo-sack of Angiosperms, by F. 

 Soltwedel. On the so-called compass-plant, by E. Stahl. Sketch 

 of a system of Radiolaria based on a study of the Challenger 

 Radiolaria, by E. Haeckel. 



